The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-05-17

have nests, but the Son of man hath
not where to lay His head"
| He was not the son of Cesar or q
Herod, put the adopted son of Joseph
the carpenter. He came to His own
but by them he was rejected. His king.
dom was not of this earth, at that time
The Jews rejected Him because of the
notion they had that the Messiah, when
He came, would restore the temporal
kingdom of David. Such, at
that time, was not the plan of
the Almighty. Although the kingdom
came nigh unto the Jews it was not
then established. Jesus said: This
gospel of the kingdom must be preached
in all the world as a witness unto all
nations and then shall tic md come. :"
The second coming was shown to cor
respond with the prophecy of Daniel,
and that the latter in referring to the
kingdom of the latter days. had no
reference to the coming OF the Savior in
the meridian of time.
Bishop Whitney next referred to the
feast of Belshszzar, when the mysteri-
words. Meme, meme, tekel, Upharsin"
upon the palace wall. Daniel was again
sent for, when he told the king that he
was weighed in the balance an found
wanting, that his kingdom was divided
and given to the Modes and Persians.
The rise and fall of dynasties which fol-
lowed were also briefly sketched. The
speaker cited the case of Alexander, the
MaceConian, who acknowledged the
power OF God to be greater than his
own, and wished the rulers of the ear tn
would more generally emulate that
example in that respect
The rise and growth of the Roman en-
Dire, the greatest in history, were r fer
red to, and the speaker showed how it |
had its part to play in the grand drama |
Of Time; it strengthened and increased |
~ the wars and hardships it encoun-
cred and by ! the virtue, tenn
,erance and frugallty it prac-
iced until it conquered all the
,ther nations of the earth. The
trength and perpetuity of a nation, the
bishop said, depended greatly upon the
,urity and temperance of its people.
Being prosecuted, butfeted and OPP
ressed for observing principles of
urity and righteousness helped to
make men and nations strong. But all
now the fate of the Roman empire. 1t
rev naughty, imperious and defiant,
Issolute and corrupt, and it, likewise,
I'll.
1t was in the zenith of that empires
Iistence that Jesus was born, in a
Hanger in Bethlehem. When Jesus
anne the empire had not begun to 4
rumble, it was at the height of its |
over, during the reign of Augustus I
cesar, and it was not for many years {
fter that it was divided in twain to
epresent the two legs of the great {
mage. 1t had become strong through
lie hardy virtues of temperance and &
ugali y, and as its growth was gradual, s
, was its dissolution. 1t forgot itself
nd the source of its power. and trans.
'rmed itself from patriots into a ma
on of plunderers and oppressors, ar
'gated power and dominion to itself,
nd reveling in drunkenness and de- .
archery; then the day of dissolution
as at hand. So long as it lived right
'usly, according to the light given, and
oheld the principles of liberty and
lual rights, tolerating the religions of {
5 conquered provinces, so long was
I'd with that nation and it thrived, as
d the sturdy oak in the forest, amid
e storms and tempests which cause
J roots to strike the deeper and :,
branches to spread the wider. :
1t as tree struck by lightning, it